Main entry:

Venit, Marjorie Susan.

Title & Author:

The monumental tombs of ancient Alexandria : the theater of the dead / Marjorie Susan Venit.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Description:

xv, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-259) and index.
The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: Setting the Scene -- The Earliest Alexandrian Monumental Tombs and Their Antecedents -- The Eastern Cemetery -- The Early Alexandrian Cemetery -- The Earliest Monumental Tombs -- Illusionism in Early Alexandrian Tombs -- Theater of the Dead: Theatricality in Alexandrian Tombs -- The Tomb at Sidi Gabr -- The Tomb from the Antoniadis Gardens -- The Tombs at Moustapha Pasha -- Moustapha Pasha Tomb 2 -- Moustapha Pasha Tomb 4 -- Moustapha Pasha Tomb 1 -- Moustapha Pasha Tomb 3 -- Theatricality and the Tombs at Moustapha Pasha -- The Tombs of Pharos Island: Cultural Interplay and Ethnic Identity -- The Necropolis at Ras el Tin -- Ras el Tin Tomb 1 -- Ras el Tin Tomb 3 -- Ras el Tin Tomb 8 -- The Anfushy Necropolis -- Anfushy Tomb I -- Anfushy Tomb II -- Anfushy Tomb V -- Ethnicity on Pharos Island -- The Ghirghis Tomb -- Fort Saleh Tomb I -- The Egyptian Broken Lintel -- Ethnicity in Alexandrian Tombs of the Ptolemaic Period -- The Emergence of the Individual: the Saqiya Tomb and the Necropolis at Wardian -- Tombs Excavated by Adriani at Minet el-Bassal (Wardian) in 1950/51 -- Section A, Tomb 1 -- Section A, Tomb 3 -- Section B -- Section C -- Riad's 1960 Excavations at Wardian -- Tomb I -- Tombs II and IV -- Tomb III: the Saqiya Tomb -- The Saqiya Tomb, Hellenism, and Egypt -- The Uses of Egypt in Roman Alexandria -- Egyptianizing Mortuary Scenes in Roman-Period Tombs -- Habachi Tomb A -- Ramleh Tomb -- Kom el-Shoqafa: The Egyptianizing Nebengrab ("Hall of Caracalla"), Room E, Tomb h.

Summary:

Spanning the life of this ancient city almost from its inception in 331 BCE through its transformation into a Christian metropolis, Alexandria's monumental tombs provide the single richest source of information about the ancient city. They attest both to the diversity and the cohesion of the community, its population's wealth and love of luxury, its sense of theatricality and pomp, and its cosmopolitan attitude. Neither Greek, nor Macedonian nor Egyptian, the monumental tombs from their inception demonstrate a specifically Alexandrian response to the ceremony of death that draws upon all three cultures but answers to none. Over the more than 500 years covered in this volume, Alexandria's monumental tombs confirm the changing ethos of the city's populace, as the tombs provide the stage on which both the city's continuity and its shifting concerns are played out. They afford a visual testament to the city's art and to its social history.

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ISBN:

0521806593
9780521806596
0052180693

Subject:

Tombs Egypt Alexandria.
Art Egypt Alexandria.
Tombeaux Égypte Alexandrie.
Art Égypte Alexandrie.
Antiquities.
Art.
Social conditions
Tombs.
Grabkammer
Grabmal
Gräberfeld
Hellenismus
Rezeption
Römerzeit
Graftomben.
Archeologische vondsten.
Alexandria (Egypt) Antiquities.
Alexandria (Egypt) Social conditions.
Alexandrie (Égypte) Antiquités.
Alexandrie (Égypte) Conditions sociales.
Egypt Alexandria.
Alexandria
Ägypten

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223525
Call No.: DT73.A4 V4 2002
Status: Available